9. Profiles Maintaining multiple configurations Joanmarie Diggs joanied@gnome.org

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 Profiles

Cthulhu's profiles allow you to save and load multiple configurations so that you can quickly access the settings you need.

Saving a New Profile

Get into the Cthulhu Preferences dialog box.

Change whatever settings you wish.

On the General page, press the Save As button.

Type the new profile name in the resulting Save Profile As dialog box.

Press the OK button in the Save Profile As dialog box.

Loading an Existing Profile

Get into the Cthulhu Preferences dialog box.

On the General page, select the profile to load from the Active Profile combo box.

Press the Load button.

You will be asked to confirm. Press the Yes button.

Press the OK button.

 Changing an Existing Profile

Follow the steps described above to load the profile you wish to change.

Follow the steps described above to save a new profile.

When prompted for the new profile name, type the same name as current profile. When you press the OK button, you will be told there is a name conflict.

Press the Yes button to confirm you wish to overwrite the existing profile with the new settings.

Changing the <gui>Start-up Profile</gui>

Get into the Cthulhu Preferences dialog box.

On the General page, select the profile to load from the Start-up Profile combo box.

Press the OK button. The next time you launch Cthulhu, the newly-selected profile will be used.